In the last KLAA meet before districts, the Hartland wresting team — fresh off winning the Association Championship on Wednesday — won the individual tournament on Saturday afternoon, getting a record six champions while John Glenn placed second and Brighton was close behind in third.

Reece Hughes (140), Logan Vish (160) and Brandon Krol (285) all won their respective weight classes, each earning a KLAA individual title for a second consecutive year. Noah Lopez (145), Sage Castillo (152) and Lucas Laforge (171) each won as well and stood atop their brackets for the first time.

Asked what it meant to see his team have six winners, Hartland coach Todd Cheney laughed and said: “Pretty cool.”

But more so than focus solely on the winners, Cheney emphasized that his team wrestled 13 guys in the tournament, and all 13 of them placed inside the top seven. That was’t simply, “pretty cool.” He used another word for that.

“To wrestle 13 guys and all 13 be in the top seven for a 24-team tournament,” Cheney said, “is incredible.”

The Eagles did it in dominating fashion, too, scoring 23 pins on the day. In the round of 16, each Hartland wrestler won by scoring bonus points — meaning by a pin, technical fall or major decision. The Eagles were truly the KLAA’s best team and showed it in their past two meets.

Now they want to show they’re the best team in the state.

“Since Wednesday, every time we wrestle it’s for a title,” said Cheney, whose team next starts the state tournament with districts on Wednesday. “Now, if you lose, you’re done. You have to win the next seven in a row or you’re done.”

Meanwhile, the Brighton wrestling team was without two of its stars in senior captain and All-Stater, Jackson Renicker, and returning 215-pound individual Division 1 state champion Luke Ready. Renicker continues to nurse an injury — although Brighton coach Tony Greathouse said he could have wrestled if Saturday were districts — and Ready had ACTs.

So to be without two wrestlers that would’ve been favored to win their respective brackets and still take third was a significant accomplishment for the Bulldogs.

“I thought we wrestled well,” Greathouse said. “We continue to get better, scoring points in close matches and wrestling through situations and stuff like that that we’ve been working on. For us, to finish third in our conference without two of our best wrestlers … that’s a pretty good overall team performance.”

They were led by 130-pounder Grant Morrison, who Greathouse said has transformed himself into a elite wrestler in the state. He made his way through his bracket and became Brighton’s only champion of the day.

“He’s had a tremendous year,” Greathouse said of Morrison. “Particularly in the last month he’s wrestled great. He’s always been good and always kind of right there. He’s just fallen a little bit short of beating the best guys. He used to lose some of those close matches but now he’s winning them.”